londons_explore

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by londons_explore 5d ago
I suspect GP's question is answered by the fact the system is not in thermal equilibrium. The view the antenna has is approx half of the sky whose temperature is far lower than room temp. Even indoors, the roof of your house is
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by londons_explore 6d ago
But training LLM's is also a task one can do whenever you have a spare GPU-minutes. I wonder why they don't have some kind of scheduler which makes sure there are never any idle minutes. One would imagine they at least would
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by londons_explore 9d ago
TL;DR: Mathematician community broadly unhappy with AI because it might destroy the community by doing all the mathematics for them.
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by londons_explore 10d ago
Google internally has lots of possible redundancy levels for data. They don't sell any of the lower and less reliable levels to the public, I suspect simply because the reputational damage from losing user data is so bad, and the news
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by londons_explore 10d ago
A camera has literally tens of millions of thermal noise sensors...
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by londons_explore 11d ago
At a minimum I'd like cloudflare to mark such traffic in some way, and browsers to put a little cross through the "Https" indicator to show the traffic is passing unencrypted across the internet.
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by londons_explore 11d ago
Great. Next can cloudflare stop providing Https to the user (giving the impression of security) when the connection back to the origin isn't strict HTTPS and is often plaintext?
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by londons_explore 12d ago
This seems like the kind of thing that the USA will explicitly grant an exception to. It is clearly bad if the whole of Iran gets their own CA infrastructure which the NSA can't as easily spy on.
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by londons_explore 13d ago
surely someone in apple would have run some common neural net architectures through the rtl simulator before tapeout and checked that the performance meets expectations??
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by londons_explore 13d ago
> it has received ~8,000 requests from two of your scanning hosts If it were 8000 requests per second , this might be worthy of some investigation. But 8000 ntp requests alone consume far less than 1 us cent of compute + bandwidth. T
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by londons_explore 13d ago
And how much did this investigation cost, when you account for all the hours spent by investigators, lawers, judges, etc? My guess is it was a huge net loss for the taxpayer. The more effective move for the nation would have been for this g
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by londons_explore 14d ago
Not soon there won't be. There is no reason you can't have phased array antennas of tens of elements on the handset and thousands on the masts, to give a massive bandwidth increase. It will take a lot of generations to get to the
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by londons_explore 15d ago
In quite a few countries, a false positive can lead to someone getting put in prison, entirely without any human viewing said image. It's all a matter of 'the image hash was on the database, therefore OP is guilty. 10 years inca
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by londons_explore 15d ago
It also has a fairly high false positive rate, and due to the nature of the content paying someone to verify false positives is near impossible both legally and morally.
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by londons_explore 15d ago
And most chat apps are either e2e encrypted or HTTPS, both of which are hard to break for third world nations. But leaks of those messages onto twitter are probably the most valuable info source for what the enemy is doing.
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by londons_explore 15d ago
Whilst this is OP's point, the reality is the majority of big tech companies have been treating user data like radioactive waste for 10+ years. Most user data is of minimal economic value, until you leak it, and then suddenly there are
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by londons_explore 15d ago
There is a pattern in software engineering of: * Project exists * New employees come up with idea for efficiency improvement * Months spent implementing. Old codepath becomes legacy. * New thing now has extra features bolted on during buil
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by londons_explore 15d ago
> Since it appears to be impossible to build anything cheaply in the UK The solution is to build nuclear power stations on ships in China, then sail them to the UK and plug them in. If power prices elsewhere in the world become advantage
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by londons_explore 16d ago
Indeed - it is only explosive when it leaks out and mixes with air in the correct quantities. Unfortunately this happens occasionally - with the common case being someone trying to use a knife to get ice out of a freezer or AC which is f
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by londons_explore 16d ago
Isobutane doesn't work well unless a system is designed for it - things like different diameters for the pistons in the compressors etc. Nearly all refrigerators/freezers in Europe are isobutane, and have been for 20 years.
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by londons_explore 16d ago
Europe is using lots of refrigerants like r600 (isobutane) and r290 (propane). They work really well, with the downside they are very explosive. However stories of airconditioners blowing up are really rare - it seems the risk is probab
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by londons_explore 16d ago
Presumably you need a bath with extra plumbing? What happens when the heat exchanger gets clogged with soap and hair?
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by londons_explore 16d ago
I suspect what you were told is a misunderstanding.
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by londons_explore 16d ago
I'm really not sure that putting money into safety will actually lead to safety. It's like putting a fish in charge of stopping sea levels rising...
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by londons_explore 16d ago
the core problem seems to be you can't make something that fold in half, yet has 4 curved corners both when folded and unfolded.
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by londons_explore 16d ago
larger screen possibly leads to more hours of usage per day, more ad-surfaces, more software and services revenue per user per year.
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by londons_explore 18d ago
I have put hundreds of canary strings into my conversation history of all the big providers, and so far the 'hit rate' is very low. Really looks like they aren't yet training on conversation histories effectively.
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by londons_explore 18d ago
I feel like at least half of leaks are either staged or at least done by an employee with a wink and a nudge from management.
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by londons_explore 18d ago
Smells like someone is botting the download numbers to get a press release....
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by londons_explore 18d ago
How many people download classifiers? The number of downloads really doesn't seem like a good way to measure the quality of a bit of work. One download could be deployed on a bit website and classify billions of users images.

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